STAND. COM. REP. NO.  492-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2115

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2115, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM FIDUCIARY ACCESS TO DIGITAL ASSETS ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to modernize fiduciary law for the Internet age by providing internet users with the authority to plan for the management and disposition of their digital assets and to authorize procedures for management and disposition of digital assets in the absence of any specific directive.

 

     The State Privacy and Security Coalition, Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation, Google, and Facebook, Inc. provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2115, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair